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inexacting

inexacting is the alternative form of unexacting.

Meaning of unexacting

Adjective

unexacting (comparative more unexacting, superlative most unexacting)

  1. (usually, feelings) Not demanding; uncritical; not difficult to satisfy.
    • Florence . . . had, all through, repaid the agony of slight and coldness, and dislike, with patient unexacting love, excusing him, and pleading for him, like his better angel!1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    unquestioning
  2. Not requiring precision or substantial effort.
    • It . . . yields a staple which requires a very simple and unexacting process to prepare it for market.1868 February 20, “Industrial Prosperity at the South”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Aug 2010, page 4

Forms of inexacting

comparativemore inexacting
superlativemost inexacting

Questions about inexacting

What is inexacting the alternative form of?
Inexacting is the alternative form of unexacting.

Words near inexacting in the dictionary

  1. inevitableness
  2. inevitables
  3. inevitably
  4. inex
  5. inexact
  6. inexacting
  7. inexactitude
  8. inexactitudes
  9. inexactly
  10. inexactness
  11. inexactnesses

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